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  1. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you look at your statistics you will find that if you want to stop gun violence you do the same steps to handle the majority of crime in the US. Handle the poverty problem. A look at your gun homicide rate will match up to your regular homicide rate as well as your locations of poverty and jobless in the US. It does not correlate to gun ownership density. or even gun laws. It only matches up to poverty rates.

  2. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You realize that the last major threats on aircraft that got by TSA were all stopped by the passengers? That any major event that a shooter has gone nuts and started killing people within an armed area were a maximum 1 to 2 people? That shooters have specifically targeted areas with limited access to firearms to maximize the amount of damage they can do before being stopped? Have you ever heard of a shootout at an NRA convention? Mass killing in a gun store? A hijacking of a military transport?

  3. Re:Screening areas as terrorist targets on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 2

    All of those areas are shown to have people with concealed carry. Who do shoot back. The airport is a self described gun free zone. Knowing where the police and security with guns on their sides are is different from having the innocent 70 year old man all of a sudden draw down on you when your back is turned.

  4. Re:Article summary sucks. on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe it stands for Armalite. The company that makes the rifle. The 15 is the model. It is not an assault rifle despite it's looks.

  5. Re:How is this news for nerds? on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    News for nerds, stuff that matters. Stuff that matters is the most relevant at the moment. Otherwise you would not have posted and just ignored the article.

  6. Re:What else do we expect to do? on Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID · · Score: 1, Troll

    Heh, Chinese spies. It's the Canadian ones that you have to watch out for. They look just like us but like bad beer and hockey.

  7. Re:I like my A4 2T 6 speed on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    That is way to general a view point. It does not take into account passengers, or the need to contact emergency services. Can you imagine a kidnapped child finds her cell phone but can't call because the vehicle is in motion? Or you drive a toyota and the gas pedal sticks? Or that the vehicle you are in gets into an accident on a lonely road and the chip is damaged and still thinks it is moving so shuts phone and text down.

  8. Re:All I can say to that is... on Rental Business Aaron's Admits Role In Spying On Customers · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't live in an apartment.

  9. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    It's actually hard because the system is not setup that way. It's designed for insurance billing. I've also found a couple of times where the treatment I was given was not the most current treatment out there because insurance would not cover it. Even if I wasn't paying by insurance. I had to do the research and request the treatment. The doctor didn't even think about it because it is not normally covered by insurance.

  10. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    How much do you think your health insurance would cost if it only had to cover emergency or trauma care? How much do you think the taxes you currently pay for medicad and medicare would be if it only had to cover trauma care? The price of those items would drop as well.

  11. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    In that scenario wouldn't the factory pay for the flu shot for its employees if it was cheap enough? I mean factories pay for regular maintenance on all their machines and equipment, And being at risk of 60 percent drop of production from employee sickness I would think the company would pay for regular flu shots as long as they worked.

  12. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    I recently had to get certain tests that were not covered by my insurance. I price shopped and found the testing centers the hospitals use have their own blood draw stations. So the blood test I needed dropped from $80 dollars down to $26.00. That is a big difference from shopping around and it is the same quality as the hospitals. Another time I found I was being charged 180 dollars a month after insurance for rental of an oxygen concentrator. For the time I needed it it was cheaper to purchase one than continue the payments, It was the same model and not a rebuild. There are a ton of items that would go down in price in a free market. As well a free market does not always mean you purchase the cheapest thing. The majority of cars sold are not the latest bottom of the barrel Daewoo derivative on the market. They are in a higher range with packages and features people want. People want A/C, Automatic transmissions and Ipod connectors in their cars. So they pay more for those items, meanwhile car makers drop prices and add features to attract more customers. As soon as they drop reliability people move away and go to another company, and stick with them until their quality drops. But as soon as you put bureaucracy into a free market stuff breaks.

  13. Re:It's called Solitaire on Myst Creators Announce Obduction · · Score: 2

    Yeah but they have a new two person version of Solitare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b6WT3lOQ68

  14. Re:LOL on The NSA Is Collecting Lots of Spam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It really does not mean much. With deduplication a terabyte of spam would be next to nothing.

  15. Re: "what is necessary to be done" on Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying" · · Score: 1

    He broke his oath of office and by his actions directly opposed the constitution. Then lied to the governing body with the intention of minimizing or outright hiding the fact of those actions of which he had personal knowledge and supported. He became an enemy when he went against the constitution. He became treasonous when he aided and protected those that would continue to do harm to the country by his actions.

  16. Re:"what is necessary to be done" on Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should not be Perjury. It should be treason.

  17. Re:Why we have a 5th Amendment on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    I know a guy whose wife is blonde, has amazing cleavage (DD) and has gotten four to five tickets in the last 7 years. They guy has been pulled over more times then his wife but has gotten off every time. He looks like a cop. I don't think girls get out of tickets more. I think cops hate girls that think they can get out of a ticket with a smile and some cleavage. I think cops get out of tickets more.

  18. Re:Like the reporter has a clue... on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there is the possibility it could cause a problem with the flight it should be scanned before going on. Because trusting someone to turn it off on a flight where such a device could cause interruption to sensitive electronics on takeoff and landing is crazy. Considering a little while ago you were not trusted to carry finger nail clippers on. But here your trusted that you will not VOLUNTARILY mess with the the actual controls of the aircraft. But you could be setting up forced manicures of the planes occupants and that must be stopped.

  19. Re:Big Oil is Dancing on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1
  20. Re:What moron judge allowed this? on Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    Probably a bit more like. FBI - Hey, Judge we noticed what websites you have been going to and the emails to the Rent Boy you have on the side. Would you like me to tell your wife or would you like to sign right here?

  21. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, you will always have criminals, but right now you can't tell the criminal from the untrained. Show in a simulator to a teen driver what its like to look at your phone and all of a sudden a deer is in your path and you have done far more than a ticket at a stop light because your lottery ticket came up that day.

  22. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    They picked a very large map and blocked their complete vision to the front of the car, to find the obscure street, that you had to read on the index and find out is at G 7 before the light changed. There has always been distractions at intersections. If you really worried you should also go after the pan handlers that hold up signs on the side of intersections for you to read. They are causing a lot of distractions when you read about "I got hurt and lost my job protecting my family from ninjas." or "veteran boy scout troop #1207" instead of driving.

  23. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it warrants better driver training. Right now we have air craft pilots train on simulators. We also have fire departments, police departments, military, oil rig crews, crane operators, semi truck drivers, network engineers, astronauts, first aid training, TSA personnel, Nuclear power plant personnel, train personnel, and a myriad of other jobs that all require a simulator for training. But for a standard drivers license you need to show you can drive around the block and memorize a test. We need to show that a person can handle an emergency while driving, not what its like on a sunny day at 35 miles an hour. We have had the technology for a low cost simulator at each dmv for a long time. States need to have them. Prove that a person can handle the most common accident situations safely and you will see the rates go down. Right now they are just not trained to see it happening and what to do when it happens.

  24. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    I would say he is barely doing his job. "one Gwinnett County police officer has given more tickets for texting and driving than any other officer in the state." What he found is an easy way to sit back and just barely do his job. Instead of catching people speeding down suburb streets, or catching people jumping from lane to lane, or disobeying school zones. You have a person going after people that are doing something in the least dangerous activity in a car. They are texting while the car is SITTING still. It's not moving at all. That is not the purpose behind the law. And his job consists of more than just finding a bunch of people stuck behind a three minute light. He should be stopping people from speeding near parks or schools, doing dangerous lane changes, drunk driving, stopped on highways, running red lights, or being snobs in hybrid cars. He should not be hobby horsing texting tickets to get his numbers up or he could wind up like this girl. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56526834-78/steed-uhp-fox-court.html.csp By the way. touches “If it’s beyond 10, they're not making a phone call," Myers said. one touch to swipe the phone open, put in passcode - 4 to 6 touches, open phone app, type in seven digit number with the 1 in front. Hit the call button. Thats 17 for a normal call and does not include looking for an elusive contact.

  25. Re:Back under the bridge, troll!! on One Man's Battle With Patent Trolls · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry. IRS has prior art.